Learning and Knowledge Exchanges
This webpage is a centralized hub for resources related to Gender-Based Violence (GBV) from organizations across British Columbia, as well as key national and international research. We will continue to update this webpage as further resources become available.
Indigenous Communities and Family Violence: Changing the Conversation
In this paper, the Canadian literature on Indigenous family violence over a fifteen year period (2000-2015) is critically analyzed using a decolonial lens.
Domestic Violence Against Immigrant and Refugee Women
In this edition of Cultures West, the collection of stories illustrate that domestic violence is a serious social issue with devastating impacts on immigrant children, women, families and communities, and also how How federal and provincial immigration policies can put immigrant and refugee women at risk.
Operating in Darkness: BC’s Mental Health Detention System
B.C. is considered the most regressive jurisdiction in Canada for mental health detention and involuntary psychiatric treatment. The goal of this research project was to investigate and make public some of the most common and troubling components of mental health detention and involuntary psychiatric treatment in B.C.
Key Practices for Community Engagement in Research on Mental Health or Substance Use
This document describes key practices for community engagement in research on mental health or substance use. This document is intended to provide academic researchers with a foundation for conceptualizing how one or both of these communities might be engaged in their next research project in these areas.
Police Abuse of Indigenous Women in Saskatchewan and Failures to Protect Indigenous Women from Violence
This submission outlines Human Rights Watch’s findings on police interactions with Indigenous women in Saskatchewan based on six weeks of fact-finding carried out from January to July 2016, in addition to interviews and correspondence with police authorities and complaint mechanisms from August 2016 to January 2017.
Report of the Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent on its mission to Canada
This report contains the findings of the UN Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent on its visit to Canada from 17 to 21 October 2016. The report presents its findings on racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia, Afrophobia and related intolerance faced by people of African descent in Canada.
Live Safe, End Abuse
Live Safe, End Abuse is for people leaving an abusive partner. The resource contains information on what abuse is, how people can plan for their safety and protect their children, and who can help.
Telling Our Stories: Immigrant Women’s Resilience
Telling Our Stories: Immigrant Women’s Resilience is a graphic novel created through a series of creative writing workshops with immigrant and refugee women who came together to learn, share, and compile their stories on sexual violence and harassment.